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So Much For Keeping The Momentum Going
The Romney/Ryan ticket walked into a buzz saw Thursday night during the Vice Presidential debate. That buzz saw was named Joe Biden. In stark contrast from President Obama’s debate performance last week – Joe Biden was the aggressor all night – not letting one convenient lie from Paul Ryan go unchallenged.
Biden exposed Romney and Ryan’s plans to voucherize Medicare. He exposed their plans to stick the middle class with a tax hike while giving the super rich a massive tax cut. He exposed the hypocrisy of Paul Ryan criticizing the stimulus act, while at the same time Ryan was writing letters to Biden asking for stimulus funding to create jobs in his Congressional district. He exposed Ryan’s previous attempts to privatize Social Security. And he exposed Ryan as belonging to a Party that has been committed to obstruction over the last four years preventing a genuine economic recovery.
If Vice President Joe Biden accomplished one thing Thursday night – it was to hype the Democratic base – and give his and the President’s re-election campaign some much needed energy and focus with just a few weeks to go until the election.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Kurt Eichenwald & David Frum (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Please enjoy the best of Thom Hartmann recycled.
Conversations with Great Minds - Kurt Eichenwald, Contributing Editor-Vanity Fair & former reporter-NY Times / Author-“500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars 
Conversations with Great Minds - David Frum, contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of seven books, including most recently, his first novel Patriots published in April 2012. In 2001-2002, he served as speechwriter and special assistant to President George W. Bush. He serves on the board of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy." -- Bill Moyers.
Hour One: "Debate question for Paul Ryan...which of Mitt's many sides are you on?"- John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
Debate preview & advice- Joel Silberman, Media Strategist-Democracy Partners
Hour Two: NYC Stop & Frisk- Ross Tuttle and Erin Schneider, documentary filmmakers (co-producers-"The Hunted and the Hated: An Inside Look at the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Policy")
"Fight Back on Voting Rights" (Debate preview too)- Ari Berman, The Nation
Site: Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential nominee.
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: How about that debate last night?- Joshua Holland, AlterNet / Author-"The 15 Biggest Lies About the Economy"
Hour Two: Talking back to the GOP war on women- Cecile Richards, Obama2012, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Plus:- Maysoon Zayid, Countdown with Keith Olbermann on Current TV.
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Why they brought call center jobs back to America- David Friend, Carbonite
Hour Two: Campaigning for the 99%...we all matter not just the wealthiest 1%- Sr. Carren Herring, Ohio Nuns on the Bus
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...
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Thom's Poll
Will Biden's debate performance help Obama in the polls?
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Watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 10/11/12: Affirmative Action Goes on Trial
Guest host Sam Sacks fills in for Thom Hartmann and discusses yesterday's Supreme Court arguments on affirmative action. Also discussed: a preview of tonight's Vice Presidential Debate, how Romney thinks there's not a health care crisis in the U.S. and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks at how privacy may just be a thing of the past.
Thom Hartmann on the News - October 11, 2012
Shane Farnan fills in for Thom commenting on the news for Thursday, October 11, 2012.
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